Botany Lunch

Fall 2010 schedule

August 27: Debra Valov (Volunteer, University & Jepson Herbaria)
Flora of Mulegé. Floristic research (and adventures!) in and around Mulegé, Baja California Sur.
www.lasecomujeres.org

Sep. 3: Matt Guilliams (Grad. Student, Baldwin Lab)
Phylogentic Relationships of Plagiobothrys & Evolution in California Vernal Pools
http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/Baldwin-Lab.html

Sep. 10: Dena Vallano (Postdoctoral Scholar, Environmental Studies Department UC Santa Cruz)
Herbaria record of increasing nitrogen pollution inputs to serpentine grasslands.
http://people.ucsc.edu/~dvallano/home.html

Sep 17: Trevor Hodkinson (Senior Lecturer in Botany, Trinity College Dublin)
Phylogenetics and systematics of the biomass and bioenergy crop Miscanthus.
http://tcdlocalportal.tcd.ie/pls/public/staff.detail?p_unit=botany&p_name=hodkinst

Sep 24: Jim Shevock (Research Associate, University and Jepson Herbaria)
Botany Explorations in the Gulf of Guinea Islands.
http://heritage.nv.gov/mosses/shevock.htm

Oct. 1 John Miller (Volunteer, University & Jepson Herbaria)
Paleozoic Origin of Angiosperms:  Potential Molecular Coevolution with Insects.
http://www.gigantopteroid.org

Oct. 8 Tom Madsen (Grad Student, Mishler Lab)
Exploring for myco-heterotrophic plants in the western U.S.
http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/bryolab/Tom_Madsen.html

Oct. 15: Danica Harbaugh (President and CEO, AuthenTechnologies, LLC; Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley)
The Bad, the Good, and the Only: A Revealing Look at Medicinal Herb Authentication Methods from the Dark Ages to DNA.
www.authentechnologies.com

Oct. 22: Amy Kasamayer (Archivist, University & Jepson Herbaria)
Cataloging the Hidden Archives of University and Jepson Herbaria.
http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/main/archives/index.html

Oct. 29: Mike Park (Grad. Student, Baldwin Lab)
Studies in Collinsia and Eryngium.
http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/Baldwin-Lab.html

Nov. 5: Nathalie Nagalingum (Postdoc, Marshall lab)
Understanding the evolution of heterosporous ferns, with special reference to the importance of herbarium collections.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/about/profile.php?lastname=Nagalingum&firstname=Nathalie

Nov. 12: Christopher Davidson
Flora of the World: We may not finish, but it's lots of fun trying.
http://www.floraoftheworld.org

Nov. 19: Lech Naumovich (Conservation Analyst, California Native Plant Society, East Bay Chapter)
The East Bay Flora Project.

Nov. 26: No Botany Lunch.

Dec. 3: Cindy Looy (Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley)
Pleuromeia sternbergii - the success story of an Early Triassic lycopod.
http://ib.berkeley.edu/labs/looy/

Dec 10: Elizabeth Brusati (Science Program Manager California Invasive Plant Council)
Weeds on the move: Predicting the spread of invasive plants in California.
http://www.cal-ipc.org/